42 replies to this topic

[BitXer0]

I just wanted to say that these “Comstar Intercepts” seem like a great idea and another cool way to bring story, roleplaying and incentives into the MWO CW experience. I'll be interested to see how these evolve further.

[VoodooLou Kerensky]

Sure is Nice that Galactic AT&T is Praying to the Blue LED to give out all this information

[Javin]

I do like the events. Keep them up.

[_Comrade_]

i can't wait to see the ghost bear intercept

i have a feeling it will start with "what is your major malfunction ghost bear?"

[50 50]

@Grimwill. Heh, yeah. I'd not really thought about that.
Been more ghost than bear in CW.

I am liking these little opportunistic events and get the sense that it's feeling out how bonuses for planets could work and how it might interact with the scouting missions providing a lead in to the invasion.
The added effect here is also concentrating the population into specific conflicts. At present there are still far too may options on both attack and defend and most of these conflicts do not relate to the faction you belong to.
I would really like to see a streamlined list where I only see the conflicts that my faction is directly involved in.

Will be watching closely to see how it develops.

Edited by 50 50, 06 September 2015 - 07:49 PM.

[Steelmesh]

Commstar Intercepts are a great way to kick start CW and give us some small measure of immersion and a feel like there is some reason to play.

It would be nicer if they were announced not on the day they start but a day earlier, so we could muster our forces properly..

[Vellron2005]

I can't wait till Clan Wolf gets a commstar intercept mission..

It will be so much fun to have a clear mission, obvious target, and get richly rewarded for the effort.. all coupled with immersive orders from the Khan..

[bad arcade kitty]

so this intercept thing died on arrival

they didn't even bother to announce the fail of davions and jaguars

[White Bear 84]

bad arcade kitty, on 07 September 2015 - 05:53 PM, said:

so this intercept thing died on arrival

they didn't even bother to announce the fail of davions and jaguars

I feel like PGI need to create a script that auto-posts the outcomes rather than do it manually.. ..otherwise this will probably happen more often than not.

[Vlad Ward]

Paul probably fell asleep after manually setting all those attack lanes at 3am and forgot to write the outcome posts.

[Vellron2005]

Well, to be honest, Davion did so poorly, that by not announcing the results, they saved them the embarrasment..

[Koshirou]

bad arcade kitty, on 07 September 2015 - 05:53 PM, said:

so this intercept thing died on arrival

Pretty much. It was a mistake to inject this into the current CW phase after months of neglect, anyway. Should have waited for a fresh start with the next phase.

[sdsnowbum]

Vellron2005, on 08 September 2015 - 12:08 AM, said:

Well, to be honest, Davion did so poorly, that by not announcing the results, they saved them the embarrasment..

Well it would only be embarrassing if they were the only ones who failed.

Almost everyone has failed so far. Liao is kind of an anomaly given they fought another IS faction therefore faced less defenders (only defenders from 1 faction).

[Lorian Sunrider]

This would be a nice option if implemented right instead of a daily challenge sort of thing. Would definitely get more interest in CW if there was one per faction per week or something and we had warning of it ahead of time.

Sorta mini-events.

[Vlad Ward]

sdsnowbum, on 08 September 2015 - 08:09 AM, said:

Well it would only be embarrassing if they were the only ones who failed.

Almost everyone has failed so far. Liao is kind of an anomaly given they fought another IS faction therefore faced less defenders (only defenders from 1 faction).

They also only won in Oceanic time (lowest pop time for all factions) due to ghost drops, so there's that.

[Commander A9]

Okay, yeah, new CW content is nice...

But what do the defenders get for preventing the attacking faction from succeeding?

What is there to motivate me as Clan Wolf from stepping up to defend a Wolf planet from the current Ghost Bear Comstar Intercept attack operation if our current focus is against the Inner Sphere?

Why should I even bother wasting my valuable time concentrating on countering this Ghost Bear attack if Clan Wolf as a faction gets nothing for doing so?

[sdsnowbum]

Lorian Sunrider, on 08 September 2015 - 01:23 PM, said:

This would be a nice option if implemented right instead of a daily challenge sort of thing. Would definitely get more interest in CW if there was one per faction per week or something and we had warning of it ahead of time.

Sorta mini-events.

I like that there was no warning ahead of time, keeps people from switching factions just for the event.

Look at how many actual teams were actually defending on the event planets - especially contrasted with normal times when teams tend to attack, or even contrasted with previous events where teams changed factions before the events started (although virtually everyone else did as well).

This setup actually provides benefits for faction loyalists without royally screwing them over. It's a small benefit and they're still slightly screwed over, but still...

[bad arcade kitty]

Vlad Ward, on 08 September 2015 - 01:41 PM, said:

They also only won in Oceanic time (lowest pop time for all factions) due to ghost drops, so there's that.

liao won when tcaf got from work... tcaf is a russian unit and so they are from utc+3 (moscow) to utc+10 (vladivostok) and more

[Uncl Munkeh]

BitXer0, on 04 September 2015 - 02:18 PM, said:

I just wanted to say that these “Comstar Intercepts” seem like a great idea and another cool way to bring story, roleplaying and incentives into the MWO CW experience. I'll be interested to see how these evolve further.

It'd be great if they even remotely played along the the universe as it is depicted.

I'm not a lore player, but I'm trying to figure out how this artificial economy helps CW in the long run.

[50 50]

While it's good to announce the events here on the web page, it would be nice to have something pop up in game in the same manner.
Some elaboration on the call to arms and/or faction chat.

The incentives are on the attacking side which makes sense.
Having a reward as a defender would be nice but given the short nature of the conflict and that they are reacting to the invasion, it should take a different format. Perhaps as a bonus in salvaged items at the end of each match if successful?

It is interesting to see the different incentives as well.
C-bills
MC
C-bills and an additional planet.
Feels like there is scope for a lot of options and what we are going through now is testing those waters.
Hopefully this means we will soon see an update regarding the next phase of CW.